------------------------Me Biased?? Absolutely!!! The day I cheer an Effin Foreign company over a Domestic one is the day I need Obama himself to show up at my house and kick my sell-out ass outta this country, once and for all. -Camicasa ------------------------Honda's John Mendel: "We love being the comeback kid, over and over and over again. It keeps us young."------------------------It's shocking how taking a dead-simple American V8 and replacing it with a forced-inducted V6 to achieve less

------------------------Me Biased?? Absolutely!!! The day I cheer an Effin Foreign company over a Domestic one is the day I need Obama himself to show up at my house and kick my sell-out ass outta this country, once and for all. -Camicasa ------------------------Honda's John Mendel: "We love being the comeback kid, over and over and over again. It keeps us young."------------------------It's shocking how taking a dead-simple American V8 and replacing it with a forced-inducted V6 to achieve less

------------------------Me Biased?? Absolutely!!! The day I cheer an Effin Foreign company over a Domestic one is the day I need Obama himself to show up at my house and kick my sell-out ass outta this country, once and for all. -Camicasa ------------------------Honda's John Mendel: "We love being the comeback kid, over and over and over again. It keeps us young."------------------------It's shocking how taking a dead-simple American V8 and replacing it with a forced-inducted V6 to achieve less

Someone had an axe to grind in this review of certain cars, and they grind the hell out of it the article. Good for them.
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Camry and Malibu did terrible. With an automatic the Fusion 1.6 would not be much slower than an Accord and still quicker than the Passat and Malibu. The Accord is really not that light compared to the new Fusion.
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Missing a lot of good contenders in this match-up. Would have liked to see some Korean cars in there like the Sonata or Optima. The Charger could have been in there too even if it would have probably finished last.

Badstang08:Camry and Malibu did terrible. With an automatic the Fusion 1.6 would not be much slower than an Accord and still quicker than the Passat and Malibu. The Accord is really not that light compared to the new Fusion.

My first thought was that the Accord wasn't all that light. The Fusion is lighter in this setting, right?

I do think the Fusion would've been faster with an updated 2.5 rather than the 1.6T

I haven't seen them all in person - but from what I have seen and what I know I'm not surprised the Passat won. It is just a very well packaged car. Sad that Chevy did that weird interior that really hasn't grown on me and that they shrunk their back seat. It is a sharp car in person. It stands out in traffic - but it doesn't sound like it does anything particularly well.
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Badstang08:Camry and Malibu did terrible. With an automatic the Fusion 1.6 would not be much slower than an Accord and still quicker than the Passat and Malibu. The Accord is really not that light compared to the new Fusion.

86TransAmT-Top:My first thought was that the Accord wasn't all that light. The Fusion is lighter in this setting, right?

I do think the Fusion would've been faster with an updated 2.5 rather than the 1.6T

An update to the 2.5 would max out what Ford can do with it. The 1.6 Ecoboost isn't dramatically better but has strong power and a little better FE. It has lots of potential and room to improve as well.
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Yikes!!! Malibu got kicked in the teeth!!! Looked at some new Accords this weekend, very nice!!! Worlds better than the 2012. The only surprise in this test for me was the very poor placing for the brand new Malibu, not that it bothers me at all.
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It appears as though all top four cars are equally good which one drawback each. Such a shame that the Altima doesn't offer anything but a CVT. Probably would've finished much higher with a nice auto box.

MunaH:It appears as though all top four cars are equally good which one drawback each. Such a shame that the Altima doesn't offer anything but a CVT. Probably would've finished much higher with a nice auto box.

Well - really even the Malibu is a very nice car I'm sure. There are just better overall options. I doubt anyone who buys any of these cars will regret it. Probably not even the Camry.
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